About the Hathern History Society

Next year, 2018, will see several anniversaries being celebrated in the village and the History Society will be playing a big part. More details to follow very soon.

Hathern Local History Society was formed in 1980 for the purpose of recording and preserving the history of the village. The Society has gathered a collection of more than 700 photographs depicting the village and its people over the last 130 years. We have many accounts of life in the village, gained from interviews with life-long Hathern residents. The Society has published several books about the village's history, containing stories and photographs, with total sales of more than 3500. The books still in print are “Old Hathern in Pictures”, "Hathern Remembered” and “Hathern at War" and the latest, "A Walk Round Hathern". These can be obtained from Hathern Post Office, price £5. Books no longer in print are "Further Pictures of Old Hathern" and "A Look Back at Hathern" though all the pictures from thosebooks are in the galleryon this website.

Two audio-visual presentations have been produced, using projected images, graphics and recorded commentry from local people: "Domesday+900", in line with the national initiative to record life in Britain during 1986. "This is Hathern", showing life in Hathern over the last century, comparing the village in bygone times to the present day. These productions have been shown many times in the village, and have always attracted large audiences.

In 2014 the History Society published “A walk round Hathern”, a booklet describing some of the more interesting buildings in the village. Currently in progress is “Hathern in 2012”, an audio-visual presentation using pictures taken in 2012 with voices of people involved in many village activities. An ongoing projrct in 2017 is about framework knitting and it is hoped to identify and photograph all the remaining framework knitting shops in the village. The Society normally meets on the third Thursday of the month at 7pm (current venue is The Anchor), and we welcome new members. A member of the society has over the past year been working with other volunteers on the "Charnwood Roots" project part of a nationwide initiative to record the history of all towns and villages in England. This is now complete and material collected for Hathern and nearby villages will be put online. As part of this, our Society took part in the recent Heritage Festival at Beaumanor Hall, displaying the information we have collected about the enclosure of fields in 1778. Following this The enclosure display was for a while shown at Hathern Library.

Contact: Terry Cox 01509 843107, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.or any society member. For general enquiries or specific questions or contributions to the website, pleass contact Anthony White 01509 829579,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .